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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so t...more

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even openin...more

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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Never let your education interfere with your learning.

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′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for a...more

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!